Black SeminolesSources Select Resources EncyclopediaResource Type: ArticleThe descendants of free blacks and some runaway slaves (maroons), mostly Gullahs who escaped from coastal South Carolina and Georgia rice plantations into the Spanish Florida wilderness beginning as early as the late 17th century. By the early 19th century, they had often formed communities near the Seminole Indians.

The Cypress HillsThe Land and its PeopleResource Type: BookPublished: 1996This book relates the history of the plateau, once a gathering place for Aboriginal Peoples, and how it has been changed through settlement.

The Enemy of NatureThe End of Capitalism or the End of the World?Resource Type: BookPublished: 2007We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy you. Capitalism and its by-products -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing a part in the destruction of our ecosystem.

Fresh Water SeasSaving the Great LakesResource Type: BookPublished: 1990Weller takes readers on a tour of the Great Lakes region, tracing its natural history from the time before human habitation. He describes how the region has been affected by uncontrolled development to the point where it now contains one of the planet's most intensive concentrations of industrial and agricultural activity.

Hidden AgendasResource Type: BookPublished: 1998Pilger's book is an indictment of Tony Blair's government and his easy acceptance of the Thacherite view of foreign affairs. Using the examples of Indonesia, East Timor, Burma, Murdoch and China he chronicles the scale and intensity of injustice around the world.

A History of Canadian WealthResource Type: BookPublished: 1972Myers lays bare the corruption, swindling, land deals, and bribery that are at the basis of Canadian history. This is Canada's past seen through the eyes of a muckraker.

The History of Costa RicaResource Type: BookPublished: 2007An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."

Pilbara strike of 1946Connexipedia ArticleResource Type: ArticleA strike by Indigenous Australian pastoral workers in the Pilbara region of Western Australia for human rights recognition and payment of fair wages and working conditions.

Police Violence Against Native PeopleResource Type: ArticlePublished: 2015In April 1974, three white high school students from Farmington, New Mexico murdered three Navajo men, Benjamin Benally, John Harvey, and David Ignacio. The brutal murders were nothing new in Farmington, where white high school students had been known to sever the fingers of inebriated Navajo men and display them proudly in their lockers at school.

Reservations Are For IndiansResource Type: BookPublished: 1991Describes the vicious circle of dependence created by government policies which ensnare aboriginal Canadians, combining an account of life in four reserve communities with a history of government policies and programmes.

Strange FruitWhy Both Sides Are Wrong in the Race DebateResource Type: BookPublished: 2008Malik makes the case that most anti-racists accept the belief, also held by racialists and outright racists, that differences between groups are of great importance. While racialists attribute the differences to biology, anti-racists attribute them to deep-rooted cultural traditions which are typically seen as inherent in the group. Malik argues that these positions are actually quite similar, and makes the case that racism and racial inequality are best combatted by focusing not on our differences but on what unites us. Malik also strongly criticizes the cultural relativism of many anti-racists, and their increasing tendency to reject science as some kind of western imperialist conspiracy to oppress the rest of the world.

The Tundra BookA Tale of Vukvukai, The Little Rock.Resource Type: Film/VideoPublished: 2011Stunning photography and senstive direction capture the fascinating culture of Indigenous reindeer herders and their struggle for survival in Russia's Arctic Circle, one of the harshest, and most beautiful, environments in the world.

The Unjust SocietyResource Type: BookPublished: 1999Attacks Canada's governments for their treatment of Native People and calls for just solutions.

Working Class ExperienceRethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991Resource Type: BookPublished: 1992From nineteenth-century tavern life to late twentieth-century cinema, from rough canallers and the first stirrings of craft unionism to contemporary public-sector strikes, this books provides a sweeping interpretive study of the history of the Canadian working class since 1800.